Crystal River current., 1887-04-30
MINING MATTERS.


to ship 900 sacks of ore this month.
The Denver shelters continue to receive
large consignment of ore from all quarters.
Mr. Mike Dowd, who was running Jack
train in 1878 at Leadville, sold with his
partner, Joe Walton, the Palmyra and San
Julian group of claims for $50, 600.
The total sum disbursed to employees by
Comstock mining companies during the
month of February was over $500, OO0-a de-
cidedly good showing for a mining town
that is said by some GROWERS to be played
out.
Saratoga is taking out two and half tons
per day with two men. High grade. This
mine has shipped l. III sacks during the last
thirty days, or about siXry tons. Great
jackson, but this is smooth.-Solid Null
doom.
Mr.. p. j. Cunningham is taking out ore
from the recent discovery made in the
Golden Curry, Sugar Loaf. 1t runs about
$50 to the ton. No shipmints will be made
until the roads have improved.
Speaking of the Treasure Vault Holy
Cross, Mr.. l.. A. Kent says: st is a NAM
moth gold lode, having a pay streak of free
milling ore, 90 odd feet wide, that yields
over $40 per ton on the plates of the COM
pany's mill.
Two good strikes are to be recorded this
week, one in the Wolverine lode on Demo-
GRAFT mountain, of almost solid galena ore,
and carrying zinc, gray copper and native
silver. The other in the Terrible mine, ga
lena ore, carrying gray copper and ruby sill
ver.-Colorado Miner.
George Purcell is down from the Ken
lucky Giant and reports five feet of vein
in the bottom of the shaft which is ninety
feet deep The mineral is scattered
through the vein with finch streak of
rich bismuth ore in the center which assays
GOO ounces in silver.-Solid Muldoon.
The people of Rico are very anxious the
Denver and Rio Grande should extend its
line from Durango to that place. They say
that if the railroad should be built they
would ship one hundred tons per day
throughout the year. The greater part of
this ore would be smelted in Durango but
some Of 1t would doubtless come to Denver
a member of the Utah Geological Survey
says Salt Lake will be of great value in the
near future, not only on account of the
common salt it will produce, but also for
the sodium sulphate it contains. The latter
is separated in ilocculent preciptate by the
cold weather of midwinter, and annually
thrown up on the shore in enormous guam
titles.
A careful survey of the ore now blocked
out in the J. C. johnson mine has been
made. 1t shows that there is $500 tons
ready to take ont. This ore, as shown by a
thorough system of assaying, will average
about ITO ounces silver per ton. while much
f.f Iii, s,, - 4
cars with 20 tons to a car, or a solid train
ten miles in length. The gross value of
this ore reserve will reach s5,OOO.00O.-As-
pen Times.
ii. Rudge, of Denver, who has in view
the establishing of zinc mill there and
who has considered the matter practical,
providing he can get sufficient quantity
OF zinc ore to supply the mill, has received
letter from Prof. X. o. Old, who offers to
furnish from ten to twenty tons daily of the
ore from his Mendoza mine, Which would
average fifty per cent, by the car load, and
which would cost from five to ten dollars a
ton.-Georgetown Miner.
The Mary Murphy miae declared divi-
dend No. 3 of IS a share, the Small Hopes
dividend No. So of $50, 900. paid February
49, Granite Mountain will in April pay a
dividend of so cents share. The stock is
held firm and it is said that the chief hold
ers intend to bring the stock value up to
500 per share. The Iron Silver will pay its
18th dividend of 800, 900 on March "a. The
Colorado Central has declared dividend
of five cents per share.-Mine, Stack and
Rail
The 10 Davis has begun shipping again,
having had settlements for two lots of 100
tons each within the past two weeks, aver
aging 100 ounces to the ton. The lessees,
David May, and others, are sinking the main
shaft, which is now down 41O feet, to point
below the present chute, which is dipping
sharply. AT depth of about 425 feet they
expect to run series of levels and upraises
in the ore. When this is done the output
will probably average SO tons daily-Lead-
vile Dispatch.
The report of the manager of the Iron
Silver mine for 1856 shows that the work.
lngs produced SC, 600 tons of ore and paid
$500, 900 in dividends. No mine in the State
has been more carefully managed than the
Iron Silver, and it is equally true that no
other corporation has been so involved in
costly litigation. A few years ago it had
no less than sixty-four suits ut law on the
court records This number has been con-
siderably reduced, but there are probably
twenty or thirty cases on the docket still to
be settled. In counting the cost of produce
ton, the expense of each suit is added to
the other items of outlay, so that each ton
OF ore sent to market, and every ton of
metal obtained, bears its proportionate
share of the litigation, as well as Of mining,
smelling etc.-Herald-Democrat.
1t looks to us as if we would have to again
look to Denver and Omaha for market for
our ores. When the annual contracts with
the leading mines here expired by limita-
tion, last December and January, and the
Omaha and Dauxar srnoItars a..A....S<-1